My quote is - "don't cry because it’s over, smile
because it happened". This quote was said by Dr. Suess. He was an American
writer and cartoonist most famous for his children's books.
This quote is about the ending of things, it’s about saying
goodbye, it’s about moving on, or moving away.
My key words are - "cry" "over"
"smile" and "it happened". These key words I will be using
to develop my motif(s) and will help me to choreography my dance.
My intention is to show that things do happen for a reason
but no matter what they are we need to learn to smile and carry on with our
lives and move on.
Throughout my choreography process I thought about my quote
and how it can be formed into dance moves. In my dance piece, I have many turns
and performing moves on one side of the room and then another side, I did this
because one of my key words I used to choreograph my dance was “over” and “it
happened” so by moving in different directions, doing turns and running across
the room showed that things do happen weather they have a reason or not and we
have to get over them and move on. Throughout my dance class at school, I
started to choreograph the start of my dance. I found it easier this way as I
had my music to help me which was called R&B love song instrumental beat
“our storm”. I choose this song because I found it easier to dance to a beat
rather than a beat and lyrics. I wanted something that had a continuous beat
and then added instruments into it throughout the song because I felt it would
relate to my quote, we live each day as normal but things happen (different beats)
and we get over them and smile. I thought the higher beats in the song represented
the keyword “smile” as it was the only happy higher beat in the 2 minutes of
dance. At the start of my dance I walked on backwards slowly, this represented
walking from out of one day into another. Then my next move was walking on my
toes while having both hands on my shoulders, this represented “smile” almost
like walking into another day all happy, cheerful and confident within myself.
My next move was my Motif. I choreographed a motif that represented the key words
cry, it happened and over. I leaned side to side at the same time leaning I
used my hands to brush over my face using the same arm as the side I was
leaning to. This represented ''cry" as it shows the tears coming down my face,
while wiping them away by using my hands brushing over my face. The second move
was a turn that represented the words "it happened" and
"over" this showed it was a new day and to turn around over to the next
day and move on. I repeated my motif five times and developed them by changing
the position of it. At the end of my dance I did a big jump with both my legs
bent, my right one was bent and at the front of my body and the left one bent tucked
at the back and both my arms were straight up pointed. This represented being
happy and enjoying the day. After that I fell to the ground and walked out into
a blank with my arms, followed by that I then did a simple bum roll and walked
off stage slowly to my right side of stage. This represented walking over my problems
that had brought me down and made me feel sad, Turning over from one day and
slowly walking into another not knowing what will happen but keeping our heads high
and being happy is all we can do no matter what the days bring us.
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